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Modernizing the Korean Welfare State - Towards the Productive Welfare Model (Paperback)
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Modernizing the Korean Welfare State - Towards the Productive Welfare Model (Paperback)
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Modernizing the Korean Welfare State analyzes recent developments
in social and public policy in South Korea. Its focus is the new
approach to Korea's system of social protection, known as the
productive welfare paradigm. This volume brings together an
international group of scholars to examine the new paradigm and
associated policy developments. In the first part, contributors
examine the significance of the productive welfare paradigm and
recent policy developments within a broader comparative and
international perspective. They question the commitment to welfare
in the paradigm, viewing it largely as an example of a global trend
towards the "enabling state" in which social welfare serves largely
economic goals. Other contributors situate the new paradigm in
relation to globalization and its implications for national
strategies of social protection developed in earlier times. The new
departure in Korea is compared to European welfare state
development, and contributors find it a bold attempt to fashion a
comprehensive welfare state based on social rights. In the second
part, contributors focus on specific issues and policy areas. These
include the degree to which Korea has been following a "pro-poor"
growth policy. They evaluate developments in the area of
unemployment and work injury insurance. They review the progress of
policies in the area of social insurance and assistance, and the
American system of income support for low income earners and its
lessons for Korean policymakers. Other contributors review the
public pensions system in Korea, and environmental protection
policies are discussed and the impact of those policies on the poor
and people of color, who are disproportionately exposed to
environmental hazards.
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